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http://http://wiki.keithl.com/MysteriousNakamoto

The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto

Benjamin Wallace 2024 Bvt. Lib.332.4048 WAL

• spoiler: Still mysterious - the author makes many guesses, but does not understand blockchain technology, money, nor inventors and coders. A quick read - not much to slow down for.

Bitcoin Wiki

No index, so here are the first pages that a concept appears on:

• p4 Elon Musk as Satoshi "intern Sahil Gupta - Yale"

• p5 Bitcoin paper

• p6 Fedcoin

• p7 Luke Nosek b1975 1998 Paypal original goal bank-less currency

  • cryonicist, also Peter Thiel b1967

• p8 Musk?? Dogecoin? no, Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer who called Musk "self-absorbed grifter"

• p10 Wired editor Jason Tanz

  • not OSU alum, Lake Oswego financier Jason Tanz

• p11 The Economist "Bits and bob" 2011 June 18 paywalls

• p12 cryptography mailing list

  • bitcoin announcement

• p13 Dustin Trammell

• p14 Every 10 minutes batches of transactions bundled into a block then chained to prior block

• p15 Maximum 21 million coins in 2140 19,846,746.875, 450 per day, 3.125 per 10 minute cycle on 2025/04/04

• 2024-8 3.125 BTC/cycle, 19.5/hour, 468/day, ~170937/year, 683748 2024-2028 ... about 1M more to mine.

• more like 16M bitcoin actively circulating

• p16 author's conflation of "cost" with price and value

• p16 Nash Equilibria

• p17 Mt. Gox

• p18 Stefan Thomas loses key to 7000 bitcoin

• p19 Gavin Andresen Bitcoin Faucet 5 free bitcoins (0.5 cents) per captcha

• p19 Laszlo Hanyecz 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large pizzas, first buyer of good

  • Pizza index - 10K bitcoins $41 2010 May 22, or $600M 2021 Nov, $827M 2025 April

• p27 satoshin@gmx.com p28 stylistically erratic C++, "windows guy"

• p27 Adam Back author of Hashcash

• p28 David Chaum DigiCash

• p30 Eric Hughes Tim May inspired by Ayn Rand and Vernor Vinge (died 2024 Mar 20 age 79)

• p31 Whitfield Diffie Martin Hellman Ralph Merkle

• p32 Phil Zimmermann PGP John Gilmore Electronic Frontier Foundation

• p33 John Draper Captain Crunch, 1972 1y prison Bram Cohen BitTorrent John Perry Barlow cyberlibertarian

• p33 Moxie Marlinspike Signal messaging app Julian Assange . Jim McCoy cpherpunk

• p34 Clipper chip 1993 Big Brother Inside Gene Hoffman